Ella's mother makes sure that ella gets three good meals a day, but she constantly ridicules ella for being too slow or too clumsy during typical day-to-day activities. you worry that ella's mom is subjecting ella to:

The answer is: Emotional abuse

Emotional abuse refers to every actions conducted to a certain individual that might cause psychological trauma to that individual.

This form of abuse could be achieved through Verbal harassment, exposing that individual to a highly stressful situation, manipulating that individual, etc.